Iron County register., 1887-02-10
STORIES OF DOCTORS.
Queer Things About the Men Who Hold
Our Lives in Their Hands.


Our Lives in Their Hands.
A woman in New York near fifty has
been a cripple for years, and has suf-
fered intensely. She spent thousands
and thousands of dollars in obtaining
the best medical advice, but to no
purpose. Lately she consulted a mounte-
bank, who gave her a prescription
which expelled a tape-worm, of which
the regular practitioners had entertained
no suspicion.
A doctor who has been in practice in
New York for nearly forty years had,
some months ago, an agOniZing pain in
his loins which untitled him for work.
AS doctors rarely treat themselves, he
had recourse to about a dozen of the
most distinguished physicians in town
for their diagnosis. Each one differed
from the other, and not ones opinion
agreed with his own. Many predicted
his speedy death; but he cured himself
in a few weeks, and has had no return
of the disorder since.
Recently, well-known rich finan-
cier. having suffered for months from
severe headache, sought relief at the
hands. one after another, of all the
doctors in Boston. They told him that
his brain was affected, that his kidneys
were diseased, that he had liver COM
plant, that it was the indirect result of
neuralgia, etc. Each and all prescribed
a remedy. He tried the various RENE
dies. but none of them was of any avail.
Finally he went abroad for his health,
and, being in Vienna, consulted an emf
nent physician there, who told him he
had a polypus in the nose, and that it
ought to be removed Immediately. The
operation, n simple one, was performed,
and the financier had no more pain in
his head.
A successful doctor will claim that
the patient has an abscess in the liver
very serious affection, and will
puncture the flesh with small. sharp
syringe, and pretend to withdraw the
pus, reported to be chemical mixture
he has furtively introduced into the in
strument The effect of this on the
mind of man believing himself to be
afflicted with so dangerous an abscess
may be readily imagined. The fancied
pus removed, the abscess will heal; q
complete cure is wrought. Who would
not pay literally to be thus rid of q
mighty peril.
After the Empress Eugene had given
birth to the Prince Imperial an inn
portant operation was necessary,
and all the celebrated doctors OF
Paris and several American doc.
tors resident there were called
in, among them DR.. Johnson. now
dead. During her treatment it was
found to their CONSERVATION that the
blood had left her brain. She was ii
momentary peril of losing her life. A
solemn consultation took place. No.
BODY could advise except Johnson, who
declared he could remedy the evil. He
held her up by the heels and the BLOOD
flowed back to her brain. He saved
her life. Not one of the Partisan sages
| would have dreamed of offering SC
monstrous an indignity to the Empires:
of the French, but the indignity, a.
they afterward acknowledged, wa
preferable to her death.
A millionaire named Parrish had ;
grave ailment and several leading
physicians were summoned, but non'
of them gave him relief. Then adoctor
able, but often rude in manners ant
speech, was called in and rendered
the desired service. His bill was on
thousand dollars, which Parrish de
clined to iouidate on the ground tina